Dule Temple, an ancient temple in Jizhou District, Tianjin, became known at home and abroad because of the research and publication of Japanese scholar Sekino Tei and Chinese scholar Liang Sicheng. Dule Temple was built in the 10th Year of Zhenguan Period, Tang Dynasty and rebuilt in the 2nd year of Tonghe Periold of the Liao Dynasty. It had been repaired for multiple times in Ming and Qing dynasties. Now, the ancient temple is a national cultural relic protection site.

Dule Temple consists of three parts in the east, middle and west. There are monk's dormitory and residential palace in the east and west, temple halls in the middle. The gate in typical style of the Tang Dynasty is the existing earliest hip-roof gate in China. Two giant statues of deva-kings are guarding on both sides of the gate. Behind them, age-old colored murals of four deva-kings are archaic and elegant.

Guanyin Pavilion is a three-storey building in wood structure. Wooden eaves of verandas had been over worn through a long history, showing an archaic and pale color and manifesting the archaeological value of Dule Temple.

Three Guanyin statues of the Liao Dynasty stand in the middle of the pavilion. The primary one, a 16.08m high statue in the middle, is called Guanyin with Eleven Faces because there are 11 small Buddhas' heads on the crown; two smaller ones wearing arms are both 3.2m high; colored murals around are bright and exquisite, displaying various topics including 16 arhats, Wisdom King, landscape and folk stories.

The residential palace west of Guanyin Pavilion is also known as Qianlong Palace which was a resting place of emperors of the Qing Dynasty on their way to Eastern Tombs. Exquisite and graceful festoon gate carved with distinctive flower patterns shows tourists a whole new world with serene courtyard and elegant corridors.

What are collected in the palace are extremely valuable, including 28 pieces of inscriptions by Emperor Qianlong as well as 107 pieces of facsimile of poems by noted calligraphers of various dynasties.

Other collections include extemporization by multiple emperors of the Qing Dynasty as well as portrayals of emperors, empresses and imperial concubines.

Profound blessing rings concubine for a long, long time in the temple.

A coppery Maitreya statue is enshrined and worshiped in the main hall of Baoen Palace with statues of storied four mad monks on both sides. The name Baoen was personally inscribed by Emperor Xianfeng of the Qing Dynasty. Baoen Palace was an important Buddha-worship site of monks in dynasties of Ming and Qing.

The archaic atmosphere of Dule Temple is gradually formed in the past one thousand years. Things happened and changed all the time, these sacred and solemn Buddha statues seemed never. They were witnesses the old and mysterious temple, as well as the changing world. There are stories in profound rings and lingering incense smoke of the temple.